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Software requirements

The following table lists the required software that must be on your system for
manually installing Alfresco.

Component

Installer Version

Recommendation

Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

JDK 7 U25 X64

The Oracle Microsystems JDK 7 is required. The
JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the location of the JDK
installation.

Application server

Tomcat 7.0.42

Alfresco runs within an application server.
Alfresco Enterprise runs within
Tomcat but can be installed on other application servers.

Database

PostgreSQL 9.2.4

Alfresco comes
preconfigured with the PostgreSQL 9.2.4 database. If you intend to use Alfresco in a
production environment, you can use one of the supported databases. For the latest
information on supported databases, refer to the Alfresco website.
For information on configuring the database settings, refer to Configuring databases.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice 4.0

Alfresco
uses LibreOffice for transforming documents from one format to another, for example, a
text file to a PDF file.

ImageMagick

ImageMagick 6.8.6-6

Alfresco uses ImageMagick to manipulate images for previewing.

GhostScript

Supported Ghostscripts for different operating systems:

Ubuntu – Ghostscript 8.71

Rhel 5.5 - Ghostscript 8.15.2

SLES 11 - Ghostscript 8.62

RHEL 6 - Ghostscript 8.70

RHEL 6.4 X64 - Ghostscript 8.70

Windows/Solaris - latest stable version or Ghostscript 9.0.7.

Alfresco uses GhostScript in conjunction with ImageMagick to manipulate
images for previewing.

Flash Player

Flash Player Version 10.x

Alfresco Share requires Flash Player Version 10.x to upload multiple
files and view Flash previews. If you do not install Flash, you see the upload screen
for single files. Use the latest (stable) version of Flash Player for your
platform.

SWF Tools

SWFTools 0.9.2

Alfresco
Share uses the pdf2swf utility for previewing PDF files. If you do not install SWF
Tools, you will not see PDF previews, but image previews will still be
available.